Sports TV: What experts said about the Cowboys & their Lambeau Lament

To paraphrase Ray Charles: Prime Time ain’t the right time for the Dallas Cowboys.

America’s team is 0-3 in primetime games this season. Along with all that exposure comes high-profile criticism coming from all sides.

Here are a few choice words from Sunday’s 45-7 shellacking from the Green Bay Packers.

“The Cowboys went back to basics this week and they’re basically awful.” — Cris Collinsworth, right before halftime during Dallas’ only scoring drive with a minute left before halftime.

“Football Night in America” anchor Dan Patrick asked analysts Tony Dungy and Rodney Harrison: “”In the last 10 quarters, the Dallas Cowboys have surrendered 104 points which begs the question: Should Wade Phillips be the head coach of this team on Monday?”

Tony Dungy: “As bad as it seems and as much of a disaster as it is, I think he should be because I’ve never seen a coaching change in the middle of a season work.”

Rodney Harrison: “”It may not work in order to make the playoffs but you need to have something to work to see improvement. This team is not disciplined and is not fundamentally sound. This team has given up.”

Dungy: “I don’t disagree with you but I don’t know that changing coaches unless you have someone better to go to I don’t know what that’s going to do.”

Patrick: “But (what about) professional pride? Maybe that seeps in when they score a touchdown late in the first half?”

Dungy: “The players need some of that professional pride.”

Harrison: “Yeah, the players need to step up and start making plays. You just can’t blame the coach and the coach only.”

Over on NFL Network’s “GameDay Final,” former Cowboys Deion Sanders and Michael Irvin were going Point-Conterpoint at each other. Sanders says Dallas players are the problem while Irvin blames the coaches.

Deion Sanders: “I’ve never been one to blame a coach. To say this is his fault, I’ve been on several teams and seen coaches come and go (but it’s) these guys, they’re the problem.

“This is the same coaching staff, this is the same guy that was there last year when they went to the second round of the playoffs, am I correct? This is the same coaching that was there the year before when they had an outstanding record and lost in the first round.

“This is the same coaching staff — these guys are gone. You need to change out these guys.

Michael Irvin: “I’m not saying you can’t make changes in the locker room but can’t get rid of 53 guys.

“You have to change to culture, so what do you do? You start shading back the situation. Do you start shading back the head ’cause you say you need to change the culture?

“You can speak as loud as you want and all day if you want but obviously no one (in the locker room) has heard (the coaches) this far.

“No one’s going to hear. You need to make a change. You need to change the coach. That’s just the bottom line.”

Sanders adds “You can’t get rid of 53, but you could get rid of 23.”

Fellow NFL Network analyst/former coach Steve Mariucci thinks the only big Cowboys question is the timing when changes will happen.

“It looks like their going to make a lot of changes at some point. The question for Jerry Jones is when? Do they wait for the end of the season to shuffle the coaching staff and the players or do they earlier that that?

Then, the team’s a little bit short-handed, just know that, if you start firing coaches right now,” Mariucci added.

If any changes do happen, fans can find out the latest during Fox Sports Southwest’s Dallas Cowboys press conference coverage at 3:30 p.m. Monday.